I Love Google Trends (aka See Who is Checking Out NetApp)

Have you ever used Google Trends? With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.

So today the following search of NetApp on Google trends returns with the following results...

http://trends.google.com/trends?q=netapp&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

These results raised my curiosity... Why would so many queries on NetApp are originating in Westborough, MA (USA)?

I wonder if this may be the cause of the elevated traffic...

http://www.google.dk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Westborough,+MA%22+EMC

If you are considering upgrading your data center to hardware platforms optimized for cloud deployments, than may I suggest you checkout technologies from NetApp.

It seems others are very interested. :)

Comments

[VMTyler]

were in ur google searchin' ur netapps :-)

[Michael Colby]

Vaughn, Vaughn, Vaugn, didn't you learn the key fact, in statistics, that one data point is meaningless on its on.

Here's another interesting analysis. Looking at google trends for the US for Netapp, EMC, HP, Dell, IBM, and Oracle

Netapp: #1 City: Westborough, MA
http://trends.google.com/trends?q=netapp&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=ytd&sort=0

EMC: #1 City: Westborough, MA
http://trends.google.com/trends?q=EMC&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=ytd&sort=0

HP: #1 City: Santa Clara, CA
http://trends.google.com/trends?q=HP&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=ytd&sort=0

Dell- #1 City: Austin, TX
http://trends.google.com/trends?q=dell&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=ytd&sort=0

IBM- # 1 City: Raleigh, NC
http://trends.google.com/trends?q=ibm&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=ytd&sort=0

Oracle- #1 City: Redwood City, CA
http://trends.google.com/trends?q=dell&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=ytd&sort=0

so now that we have more data points to consider. What's it all mean?

[twitter.com/that1guynick]

Amazing! Awesome digging there, V.

[Mike Shea]

Try out "Deduplication" Seems people in Westborough are confused about that one too.

http://trends.google.com/trends?q=deduplication&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

[Oldmanaround]

I have to point out that I found some even more interesting Google Trends and posted them here: http://www.oldmanaround.com/2010-10/287. (full disclaimer: I'm an ACADIA/EMC employee)

[Oldmanaround]

I must say that I've found some pretty interesting Google Trends, as well:
http://www.oldmanaround.com/2010-10/287 [full disclosure: ACADIA/EMC employee]

[tomlasswell]

try unified storage too. http://www.google.com/trends?q=unified+storage&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0